OK. Firstly, it's a Guardian article (which automatically colours it paranoid). Secondly, the execution of RIP powers still requires the issue of a warrant to lawfully intercept. Regardless of how much power you think they should have to invade your privacy, the simple fact is that nobody outside of the security services will definitively be able to confirm or deny any activities whatsoever. So whether they can or can't, in the end does it really matter?
"Home Secretary managed to push through a bill (which sounds astonishingly like the one in Enemy of the State) that allows the government and the police to do all the snooping they like."
Would you like to post some links to that? And at the same time, would you also provide a reference to IOCA (1985) where it states quite clearly that a warrant is required. Thank you.
It's a shame that Raven didn't keep his nuke with him. 'twould have been a better ending had it gone off while the carrier was out at sea and eliminated all the scum.However, I suppose he was too busy boning little girls...
There is absolutely nothing wrong with spying on your own people. Especially if you can prevent a bunch of thieving parasites from making their way into your country to leech off of social security and healthcare systems. Look at Britain! We send millions of pounds abroad to educate people who are stupid enough to continue to live next to an active volcano, yet there is never enough money to provide decent healthcare and police protection for the hard working TAX PAYING citizens.
For a laugh, why not pop down to Maidstone in Kent. It's FULL of thieving, stinking, undereducated foreign skanks who are only in the UK to claim unemployment and disability benefits and sue us for breaching their human rights when we hold them in custody while checking their paperwork.
Well done Australia! Keep up the good work and protect your tax payers. Fuck those immigrant scum. I say torpedo the boat they are on and then film them drowning. It'd be a blockbusting hit over here in the UK and in Australia.
HAHAHAHA talk about aiming the right question at the right people for a biased viewpoint. For bonus points, you should have also asked slashdot about recommended books for discussing Big Brother mentalities and asking which founding father uttered that stupid "liberty and safety" quote.
"like to hear some experiences with various different noise cancelling headphones paired up with MP3 players"
Every MP3 player comes with built in Noise Cancelling functionality. All you do is NOT download any boy-band/metal-wannabe crap onto the device. Et Voila! No noise.
I am one of the lucky people who has to endure South West Trains service from Woking to Waterloo, and I can often be found wedged into the first class corridor with hundreds of other people. PUBLIC SAFETY MESSAGE : If you see a 6'4" 21 stone bloke squashed into the corridor and he doesn't look happy, remember : I'm listening to "Ich Will" by Rammstein and I carry a 21" ASP baton in a belt clip. DO NOT ask me to "budge up a little".
"There's a sourceforge project creating just what you're looking
for..."
"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the
idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project
has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"That's the beauty of UNIX - Lots of little tools which can be used
together. Far more flexible!"
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fuck knows what any of
this flags stuff is about"
"Linux is far more secure than Windows. My box has never been
hacked."
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a
network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"You might want to try going to college and learning about this
stuff!"
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in
an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"Microsoft products are soooo insecure!"
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot
propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my
life depended on it."
"We should file an antitrust lawsuit against Sony"
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"Have you considered using Linux?"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Don't you find that parsing this bitset through the compliation alogirithm that is piped out through GCC on a command line echo really works well for logarithmically sound sine wave matcher?"
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"If they join all the state drivers licence databases together, they'll be able to track me! How do I change my identity?"
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
(Another quality troll coming soon...)
Don't forget to mod me down!
"There's a sourceforge project creating just what you're looking
for..."
"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the
idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project
has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"That's the beauty of UNIX - Lots of little tools which can be used
together. Far more flexible!"
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fuck knows what any of
this flags stuff is about"
"Linux is far more secure than Windows. My box has never been
hacked."
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a
network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"You might want to try going to college and learning about this
stuff!"
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in
an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"Microsoft products are soooo insecure!"
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot
propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my
life depended on it."
"We should file an antitrust lawsuit against Sony"
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"Have you considered using Linux?"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Don't you find that parsing this bitset through the compliation alogirithm that is piped out through GCC on a command line echo really works well for logarithmically sound sine wave matcher?"
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"If they join all the state drivers licence databases together, they'll be able to track me! How do I change my identity?"
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
I find that the iAss product is ultra reliable. At 19:30 every day, it produces output of all received input which has been processed. It also functions as a printer, and can make a hard copy if you apply paper to the output port. The quality of the hard copy depends on the input. I recommend you ask The Turd Report for more details on this functionality. Oh, and it runs OS/2, that puss filled rectal wart of an excuse for software.
Don't be a puff. Eat white bread. With nowt farted about with. Now go and get your monkey cheque book out. ON THE HEAD GIGSY!!!
Recipe for disaster.
Take one part naff operating system (Linux), blend in a handful of unwashed geeks (Slashbots), add a pinch of bad code management (Bitkeeper) and smother generously with a wannabe-deity (Linus).
Result : An even worse "open source" offering for the corporate computing environment.
"Oops, that nice windowing system on your Linux box just disappeared in a puff of missing X libraries."
Fine by me. I use OpenBSD and on the command line only.
Slashdot, The Official MIT Newsletter.
MIT Lab stuff, Get an MIT education, more MIT, and cripes, oh looky, a bit more MIT here too.
In fact, why doesn't Slashdot just sponsor all of us to attend there, so we can all be included in a nice clicky in-group? Ah yes, that's right - It's for SPECIAL people only. And that is why it is continously mentioned! To make all the non-MIT people feel inferior. Nice one Slashdot!
"There's a sourceforge project creating just what you're looking
for..."
"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the
idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project
has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"That's the beauty of UNIX - Lots of little tools which can be used
together. Far more flexible!"
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fucks knows what any of
this flags stuff is about"
"Linux is far more secure than Windows. My box has never been
hacked."
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a
network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"You might want to try going to college and learning about this
stuff!"
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in
an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"Microsoft products are soooo insecure!"
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot
propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my
life depended on it."
"We should file an antitrust lawsuit against Sony"
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"Have you considered using Linux?"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Don't you find that parsing this bitset through the compliation alogirithm that is piped out through GCC on a command line echo really works well for logarithmically sound sine wave matcher?"
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"If they join all the state drivers licence databases together, they'll be able to track me! How do I change my identity?"
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
Democracy is not about forcing companies to lower prices on luxury goods such as films and music!!
I'd liquidate my business and burn the factory and all remaining merchandise to the ground before letting any cheapskate consumers tell me how much I must sell my goods for! Don't want to pay? Then don't buy it. It's not like you NEED the new Britney CD, is it?
"...by someone as unknowledgeable as yourself?"
"Go read some legal decisions on copyright some time and come back when you know enough to meaningfully participate in the discussion, kid."
And it's people like you who continue to breed this culture of "infringement" based upon some perceived moral high ground influenced by some share the wealth ideals. Why the hell should I work hard to produce something which I am legally entitled to sell, which then gets taken elsewhere and sold, with no benefit to myself? I say ban the export of movies to Taiwan, China and anywhere else that chooses to hand it out on a whim.
But then again, I'm probably trying to argue justice and fair play with someone who can't see past the first amendment.
Just because you don't agree with the price of something does not entitle you to steal it.
Make your voice heard with your wallet/purse. Don't want to pay that much? Then don't. Walk away.
(That was of course a rhetorical question). Just a few hours ago, there was a/. article on Square Pictures closing its studios in Hawaii. The film revenue did not cover its production costs. Maybe, just maybe, if all the people that used services like this one had gone out and paid to see the movie like they should have, Square could be lining up another great movie.
And $1 for a streaming film is theft. No argument can be made to the contrary. This website is using Taiwanese legal loopholes to make foreign produced movies available. You can be damn sure the film studios are seeing none of that $1 fee.
You could argue the movie companies have enough money already. ooooh, bad film executives. Evil MPAA. But, at the end of the day, when cuts need to be made, it's never the senior management that go. It's the little guy cleaning the hallway or the young girl desperately making tea for everybody in a bid to break into the industry.
MP3 trading is theft. DivX movie swapping is theft. Streaming movies against the license holders wishes is theft. Do not try and hide it under the "information wants to be free" flag - It is stealing, plain and simple. And even though you are still paying to see the film, it is no more legal than knowlingly purchasing a stolen car or computer from some dodgy looking chap in the back of a lorry.
I think this company failed to notice the burst in the dotcom bubble. Geeks, the only creatures liable to pay just short of $3k for a kitchen computer (nice as it may be), are now earning a pittance, and that's those who can even find work. Just how many of these things to they reckon they are going to sell?
Nice idea, but wrong time to introduce it. They should wait until the next "Big Thing" when everybody runs out to spend their entire business budget on fancy chairs and hiring recently graduated wannabe coders with no experience who won't create product and expect to be spoon fed everything.
If the post is anti-Linux or anti-Slashdot, it's Troll or Flamebait
If the post is bad mouthing Microsoft, it's Insightful. If a $ is used in place of an S, it's Funny
If you don't agree with a post, moderate it down
If you agree with the post, moderate it up
If you especially dislike what someone has to say, moderate that post down, then look in their post history and moderate down as much of their previous stuff as is allowed.
If someone suggests that FreeBSD may be slightly more reliable than Linux, moderate them down, and then post AC throwing a raging fit in reply.
Keep your crack pipe lit.
+5, Interesting for any post including the "...sacrifice liberty to gain temporary safety..." quote, regardless if the topic at hand has nothing to do with privacy or freedom, and especially if said quote has not been correctly credited.
+3, Insightful for any post meeting standard Groupthink levels. Including, but not limited to, the words "Echelon", "NSA", and "They are tapping my phones right now". Make sure to mod up to +4 if poster has demonstrated signs of excessive paranoia in past posts.
0, Flamebait for any post linking to the Microsoft website. This includes posts made under Microsoft related topics.
"The fact that MS also has engaged in a sort of a legalized piracy is also part of the trap."
Can you say the word "libel"? When making a statement like this, you'd better be DAMN SURE that you've got your facts straight and some fucking EVIDENCE to back it up. And no, linking to slashdot articles is not evidence.
Slashdot Mirror
OK. Firstly, it's a Guardian article (which automatically colours it paranoid). Secondly, the execution of RIP powers still requires the issue of a warrant to lawfully intercept. Regardless of how much power you think they should have to invade your privacy, the simple fact is that nobody outside of the security services will definitively be able to confirm or deny any activities whatsoever. So whether they can or can't, in the end does it really matter?
"Home Secretary managed to push through a bill (which sounds astonishingly like the one in Enemy of the State) that allows the government and the police to do all the snooping they like." Would you like to post some links to that? And at the same time, would you also provide a reference to IOCA (1985) where it states quite clearly that a warrant is required. Thank you.
"The only kind of data they are going to intercept is some guy having an affair with his wife..." Erm, what?
It's a shame that Raven didn't keep his nuke with him. 'twould have been a better ending had it gone off while the carrier was out at sea and eliminated all the scum.However, I suppose he was too busy boning little girls...
Yeah, encrypted goatse. Nice.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with spying on your own people. Especially if you can prevent a bunch of thieving parasites from making their way into your country to leech off of social security and healthcare systems. Look at Britain! We send millions of pounds abroad to educate people who are stupid enough to continue to live next to an active volcano, yet there is never enough money to provide decent healthcare and police protection for the hard working TAX PAYING citizens. For a laugh, why not pop down to Maidstone in Kent. It's FULL of thieving, stinking, undereducated foreign skanks who are only in the UK to claim unemployment and disability benefits and sue us for breaching their human rights when we hold them in custody while checking their paperwork. Well done Australia! Keep up the good work and protect your tax payers. Fuck those immigrant scum. I say torpedo the boat they are on and then film them drowning. It'd be a blockbusting hit over here in the UK and in Australia.
HAHAHAHA talk about aiming the right question at the right people for a biased viewpoint. For bonus points, you should have also asked slashdot about recommended books for discussing Big Brother mentalities and asking which founding father uttered that stupid "liberty and safety" quote.
"like to hear some experiences with various different noise cancelling headphones paired up with MP3 players" Every MP3 player comes with built in Noise Cancelling functionality. All you do is NOT download any boy-band/metal-wannabe crap onto the device. Et Voila! No noise. I am one of the lucky people who has to endure South West Trains service from Woking to Waterloo, and I can often be found wedged into the first class corridor with hundreds of other people. PUBLIC SAFETY MESSAGE : If you see a 6'4" 21 stone bloke squashed into the corridor and he doesn't look happy, remember : I'm listening to "Ich Will" by Rammstein and I carry a 21" ASP baton in a belt clip. DO NOT ask me to "budge up a little".
1st Official Slashdot to English Translator-matic
- "There's a sourceforge project creating just what you're looking
for..."
- "That's the beauty of UNIX - Lots of little tools which can be used
together. Far more flexible!"
- "Linux is far more secure than Windows. My box has never been
hacked."
- "You might want to try going to college and learning about this
stuff!"
- "Microsoft products are soooo insecure!"
- "We should file an antitrust lawsuit against Sony"
- "Have you considered using Linux?"
- "Don't you find that parsing this bitset through the compliation alogirithm that is piped out through GCC on a command line echo really works well for logarithmically sound sine wave matcher?"
- "If they join all the state drivers licence databases together, they'll be able to track me! How do I change my identity?"
(Another quality troll coming soon...)"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fuck knows what any of this flags stuff is about"
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my life depended on it."
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
Don't forget to mod me down!
1st Official Slashdot to English Translator-matic
- "There's a sourceforge project creating just what you're looking
for..."
- "That's the beauty of UNIX - Lots of little tools which can be used
together. Far more flexible!"
- "Linux is far more secure than Windows. My box has never been
hacked."
- "You might want to try going to college and learning about this
stuff!"
- "Microsoft products are soooo insecure!"
- "We should file an antitrust lawsuit against Sony"
- "Have you considered using Linux?"
- "Don't you find that parsing this bitset through the compliation alogirithm that is piped out through GCC on a command line echo really works well for logarithmically sound sine wave matcher?"
- "If they join all the state drivers licence databases together, they'll be able to track me! How do I change my identity?"
Don't forget to mod me down!"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fuck knows what any of this flags stuff is about"
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my life depended on it."
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
I find that the iAss product is ultra reliable. At 19:30 every day, it produces output of all received input which has been processed. It also functions as a printer, and can make a hard copy if you apply paper to the output port. The quality of the hard copy depends on the input. I recommend you ask The Turd Report for more details on this functionality. Oh, and it runs OS/2, that puss filled rectal wart of an excuse for software. Don't be a puff. Eat white bread. With nowt farted about with. Now go and get your monkey cheque book out. ON THE HEAD GIGSY!!!
OpenBSD!!!!!
Recipe for disaster. Take one part naff operating system (Linux), blend in a handful of unwashed geeks (Slashbots), add a pinch of bad code management (Bitkeeper) and smother generously with a wannabe-deity (Linus). Result : An even worse "open source" offering for the corporate computing environment.
"Oops, that nice windowing system on your Linux box just disappeared in a puff of missing X libraries." Fine by me. I use OpenBSD and on the command line only.
Slashdot, The Official MIT Newsletter. MIT Lab stuff, Get an MIT education, more MIT, and cripes, oh looky, a bit more MIT here too. In fact, why doesn't Slashdot just sponsor all of us to attend there, so we can all be included in a nice clicky in-group? Ah yes, that's right - It's for SPECIAL people only. And that is why it is continously mentioned! To make all the non-MIT people feel inferior. Nice one Slashdot!
1st Official Slashdot to English Translator-matic
- "There's a sourceforge project creating just what you're looking
for..."
- "That's the beauty of UNIX - Lots of little tools which can be used
together. Far more flexible!"
- "Linux is far more secure than Windows. My box has never been
hacked."
- "You might want to try going to college and learning about this
stuff!"
- "Microsoft products are soooo insecure!"
- "We should file an antitrust lawsuit against Sony"
- "Have you considered using Linux?"
- "Don't you find that parsing this bitset through the compliation alogirithm that is piped out through GCC on a command line echo really works well for logarithmically sound sine wave matcher?"
- "If they join all the state drivers licence databases together, they'll be able to track me! How do I change my identity?"
Don't forget to mod me down!"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fucks knows what any of this flags stuff is about"
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my life depended on it."
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
Democracy is not about forcing companies to lower prices on luxury goods such as films and music!! I'd liquidate my business and burn the factory and all remaining merchandise to the ground before letting any cheapskate consumers tell me how much I must sell my goods for! Don't want to pay? Then don't buy it. It's not like you NEED the new Britney CD, is it?
"...by someone as unknowledgeable as yourself?" "Go read some legal decisions on copyright some time and come back when you know enough to meaningfully participate in the discussion, kid." And it's people like you who continue to breed this culture of "infringement" based upon some perceived moral high ground influenced by some share the wealth ideals. Why the hell should I work hard to produce something which I am legally entitled to sell, which then gets taken elsewhere and sold, with no benefit to myself? I say ban the export of movies to Taiwan, China and anywhere else that chooses to hand it out on a whim. But then again, I'm probably trying to argue justice and fair play with someone who can't see past the first amendment.
Just because you don't agree with the price of something does not entitle you to steal it. Make your voice heard with your wallet/purse. Don't want to pay that much? Then don't. Walk away.
(That was of course a rhetorical question). Just a few hours ago, there was a /. article on Square Pictures closing its studios in Hawaii. The film revenue did not cover its production costs. Maybe, just maybe, if all the people that used services like this one had gone out and paid to see the movie like they should have, Square could be lining up another great movie.
And $1 for a streaming film is theft. No argument can be made to the contrary. This website is using Taiwanese legal loopholes to make foreign produced movies available. You can be damn sure the film studios are seeing none of that $1 fee.
You could argue the movie companies have enough money already. ooooh, bad film executives. Evil MPAA. But, at the end of the day, when cuts need to be made, it's never the senior management that go. It's the little guy cleaning the hallway or the young girl desperately making tea for everybody in a bid to break into the industry.
MP3 trading is theft. DivX movie swapping is theft. Streaming movies against the license holders wishes is theft. Do not try and hide it under the "information wants to be free" flag - It is stealing, plain and simple. And even though you are still paying to see the film, it is no more legal than knowlingly purchasing a stolen car or computer from some dodgy looking chap in the back of a lorry.
me love you long time? Alms to the whore! Alms to the whore!
I think this company failed to notice the burst in the dotcom bubble. Geeks, the only creatures liable to pay just short of $3k for a kitchen computer (nice as it may be), are now earning a pittance, and that's those who can even find work. Just how many of these things to they reckon they are going to sell?
Nice idea, but wrong time to introduce it. They should wait until the next "Big Thing" when everybody runs out to spend their entire business budget on fancy chairs and hiring recently graduated wannabe coders with no experience who won't create product and expect to be spoon fed everything.
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"The fact that MS also has engaged in a sort of a legalized piracy is also part of the trap." Can you say the word "libel"? When making a statement like this, you'd better be DAMN SURE that you've got your facts straight and some fucking EVIDENCE to back it up. And no, linking to slashdot articles is not evidence.